Andrei Kolmogorov

Edward Lorenz

Alan Turing

ENIAC and Complex Systems Tools

Balthazar Van der Pol

Fractals

Benoit Mandelbrot

Georg Cantor

Bifurcation

George Birkhoff

Catastrophe Theory

Infinite Sets

Cellular Automata

Jules Henri Poincare

Chaos

Kurt Godel

Chaotic Attractor

Michele Henon

Claude Shannon

Nonlinearity

Communication Theory

Qualitative Dynamics

Complexity

Rene Thom

Complex Systems

Sante Fe Institute

Dynamic

State Space




If you'd like to know more about the original ideas

and spirit behind the exhibition take a look at

Turbulent Landscapes---A Dialogue .

This article appeared in

Complexity 2 :2 (December 1996) 3-7.



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